Speaking at the BBC Comedy Festival in Liverpool, Jon unveiled six fan favourites that are all returning for a third time ...

The Prince Harry of the TV Royal Family.” That is how BBC comedy boss Jon Petrie characterized his genre competing with the ...

Bafta-winning BBC comedy Amandaland, starring Lucy Punch and Dame Joanna Lumley, has been renewed for a six-part third series ...

A new six-part series is centred around an historic and slightly shabby Grade 1 listed house in the Northern Ireland ...

Hello Liverpool! Thank you for joining us for this year’s BBC Comedy Festival. It feels so exciting to have this festival in ...

‘Because the BBC does not back comedy to make money. We back it for laughs. And if we weren’t here to support comedy properly, the simple truth is there would be a lot less of it. A lot less space for ...

Twenty Years Of Not Going Out (w/t) is an Avalon production for BBC iPlayer and BBC One. It was commissioned by Jon Petrie, BBC Director of Comedy. The show is produced by Adam McLean and the ...

Just days after it was handed a BAFTA for best scripted comedy, the BBC has confirmed that a third season of the hit ...

Comedies including Black Ops, Things You Should Have Done, and Am I Being Unreasonable? have also been commissioned for new ...

A brand new series of the hit Scottish sitcom Two Doors Down has been greenlit by the BBC - months before the cast appear in the first live version of the show. The eighth series has been commissioned ...